During a peripheral infection, dendritic cells take up large amounts of antigen and travel through afferent lymphatic vessels into draining lymph nodes to display the antigen to and activate recirculating T lymphocytes.

Authors

• Person: Janeway CA Jr, Travers P, Walport M Organization: Garland Science
  The components of the immune system - Immunobiology - NCBI - NIH

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• The components of the immune system - Immunobiology - NCBI - NIH www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Janeway CA Jr, Travers P, Walport M · Garland Science via serper

Referenced by nodes (7)

• infection concept
• dendritic cells concept
• lymph node concept
• T lymphocytes concept
• antigen concept
• lymph nodes location
• lymphatic vessels concept